Torches
Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:17
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ERIC DRUMMOND
Could anybody give me the wattage of torches sold as 2,000,000 candle power.
thanks
Reply By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:09
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:09
i dont think you can convert candle power to watts
watts is power cunsumption and i beleive candle power relates to lumens? or something....
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:13
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:13
not often i am wrong but this time i was ...candle power is candella
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:20
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:20
bloody hell wrong again.....
candlepower is exactly that
candela is exactly that
lumens is exactly
watt did i say
watts is the power consumed to produce say 1 lumen
candle power, candela and lumens is the output
for example manufacturer A may use i watt/lumen while manufacturer B may only use .5watt/lumen (exagerated example)
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Follow Up By: Voxson - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:41
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:41
You useless bar-stool... lol....
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:22
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:22
its only been twice today....
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Follow Up By: Voxson - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:44
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:44
Did chris end up working out who you are? "christec"
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:50
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 13:50
Yes he did
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Follow Up By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 17:53
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 17:53
It is sad to see alzhemeyers take hold in a
well known identity, but at least your life will be more exciting now MN1. You will always be meeting new people you didn't know! :o)
Pete
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Reply By: Robin - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:10
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:10
Around 50w - varies a bit , as candle power they use is really reffering to how tight or fine the beam is focussed.
Robin Miller
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Follow Up By: Kiwi Kia - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:10
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:10
It does not really mean much. They are saying that the light at a certain distance from the lens is 'equivalent to' 2,000,000 candles. Some lamps are filled with exotic gases (xenon etc.) and give a different candle power output then say an ordinary filament in a vacuum for the same power (wattage) consumed.
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Reply By: Auntie - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:33
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:33
I wouldn't worry about getting a torch. Just try to get one of those candles that they use in the movies. The candle that Allan Quartermain used in King Solomons
mine was better than the very best set of Hellas !!!
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Reply By: Mike Harding - Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 17:23
Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 17:23
If it's one of those which use a SLA battery my advice is forget it. 2M CP will use a _stack_ of power from the battery and the damn things always go flat when you need them most and take a few hours to recharge. Additionally most (all?) of them don't have anything to stop you flattening the battery down to zero so it ends up with a very short life.
Take a look at some of the new LED torches on the market - some very impressive stuff there now.
Mike Harding
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Reply By: Member - Alex K (NSW) - Saturday, Mar 03, 2007 at 00:50
Saturday, Mar 03, 2007 at 00:50
Candle power is crap. It's impossible to use as reference. On another note, I purchased an LED globe (
well 3-in-1 actually) a couple of days go from Jaycar which replaces the std one in the dual AA battery Mag Light. My Opinion is that it's much brighter than the std globe but doesn’t focus like the std one does.
So if you're using it for broad beam then it's great, otherwise not so. About $15, Plus they say it saves battery life like, you know, ever bleep ing other LED something on the market.
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Reply By: Member - Phil G (SA) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:19
Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:19
They usually take a 12v H1 globe, which is either 55watt or 100watt.
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Reply By: Mainey (WA) - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 17:12
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 17:12
When using my 1,OOO,OOO Candle power torch it's capable of seeing crocodiles eyes at so many hundreds of mtrs it's not scarey any more, you don't want to see them up close because the Barra probably won't be in the same area as the crocks.
At probably 1/2 Klm I can see as clear as day with-in the lit up area.
Battery stats are:
cycle use 7.25v - 7.45v
standby use 6.8v - 6.9v
It has a 6v - 55w globe
and that's only 1x million Candle Power
It recharges direct off my Inverter
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